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Preparing for Digital Story Telling Connecting the Past  with the Future

by Dr. Ellen Brinkley, Director of the Third Coast Writing Project, Professor of English, Western Michigan University Dr. Allen Webb, Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology  (PT3) – Art & Science Program Coordinator, Associate Professor of English, Western Michigan University Dr. Robert Leneway, Project Director PT3, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Introduction What is Digital Story Telling? Everyone has a story – What is yours? How might it be told digitally?

Agenda Overview What it looks like to To the Audience To the Story Teller For PT3 Students Developing Digital Stories

To the Audience Shared Experience versus Viewing a puzzle coming together

National Writing Project

Corey’s Story National Writing Project Third Coast Writing Project Rural Voices, Country Schools Center for Digital Story Telling

What is a Digital Story? Story Multimedia Digital Technology

The Story Uses a focused narrative Explores a topic, makes a point Requires a carefully crafted script Uses spoken and visual metaphors

Multi-Media Materials Flat images to  scan Images from the Internet Video footage Music Voice Sound Text and Titles

Digital Technology Premiere and Photoshop software Scanners Voiceover recordings Other multi-media elements

Jennifer and Joan’s Story 2001 TCWP Digital Story Telling Institute

Educational Autobiographies / Autoethnographies Help Teachers: Understand their own education Consider the relationship of theory and practice Contexualize their educational experience Reflect on how to teach students different from themselves

Digital Story Telling for Teachers Makes learning vivid        and compelling Clarifies teaching        philosophies and goals Develops confidence Develops technology       competence Creates a document for teaching and employment.

Develop Digital Stories By: Creating a compelling, short personal narrative that tells a story. Digitizing photographs and images Identifying sound tracks as desired Recording reading of narrative to create framework for video Weaving in images and sound Burning to CD

Pen’s Story Teacher as writer and     writer as teacher.

Summary What is Digital Story Telling? Preparing for Digital Story Telling

So, Where Are We Going From Here? Further Implementation in Preservice Classrooms Faculty Summer Workshops Integration with Electronic Portfolios Linking with the ThinkQuest Project Internet II

Where to Get More Information Center for Digital Story Telling      - http://www.storycenter.org/ Tech Head Stories  -http://tech-head.com/dstory.htm PT3 at WMU   - www.wmich.edu/pt3 ( including these  Powerpoint slides)